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    A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, cassette, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer...
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    Nintendo 64 Game Pak (part number NUS-006) is the brand name of the ROM cartridges that store game data for the Nintendo 64. As with Nintendo's previous...
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  • up Cartridge or cartridge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cartridge may refer to: Cartridge (firearms), a type of modern ammunition ROM cartridge, a...
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    A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used...
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    ROM cartridges used to store video game data for the Game Boy family of handheld video game consoles, part of Nintendo's line of Game Pak cartridges....
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  • Look up cartridge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Electronics cartridge may refer to: ROM cartridge, a removable enclosure containing read-only memory...
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    Nintendo Entertainment System, it was the last major home console to use a ROM cartridge as its primary storage format. As a fifth-generation console, the Nintendo...
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  • ROM hacking (short for Read-only memory hacking) is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file to alter the contents contained within them, usually...
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  • console. It was built upon the functionality of the cartridge-based SNES by adding support for a CD-ROM-based format known as Super Disc. The SNES-CD was...
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    technology. ROM cartridge or game cartridge The read-only memory (ROM) cartridge was introduced with the Fairchild Channel F. A ROM cartridge consist of...
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    offering analogue joystick and parallel ports, together with cartridge slots into which ROM cartridges, providing software, or other kinds of hardware expansions...
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    such as Compact Flash or Secure Digital. Recent flash cartridges may also use RAM instead of ROM for flashing games to run on the console as a way to offer...
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  • texture filtering Optical disc (CD-ROM) game storage, allowing much larger storage space (up to 650 MB) than ROM cartridges CD quality audio recordings (music...
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    characteristic PETSCII, an Atari CX40 joystick-compatible interface, and a ROM cartridge port. The serial IEEE-488-derivative CBM-488 interface was designed...
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    afterwards. The term cassette is a contemporary Japanese synonym for ROM cartridge, not to be confused with the magnetic cassette tape format. In terms...
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    Read-only memory (redirect from Mask ROM)
    as plug-in cartridges containing ROM. Strictly speaking, read-only memory refers to hard-wired memory, such as diode matrix or a mask ROM integrated circuit...
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  • and is not equipped for additional games that are distributed via ROM cartridges, discs, downloads or other digital media. Dedicated consoles were popular...
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    allow cartridges to be inserted from above. A modified ROM replaced the BASIC interpreter with a boot screen to inform the user to insert a cartridge. Designed...
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  • devices ROM cartridge, a portable form of read-only memory ROM image, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip ROM (MUD)...
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  • Hacker International was a Japanese video game company that developed and published games from 1990 to 2001 for the Nintendo Famicom (including Famicom...
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    Atari 2600 and Intellivision. The initial catalog of twelve games on ROM cartridge included the first home version of Nintendo's Donkey Kong as the pack-in...
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    better "chiclet keyboard" with plastic keycaps a cartridge port to the right of the keyboard for ROM-based software Timex SCLD chip instead of the Spectrum's...
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    flexibility found in later ROM cartridge based consoles, and there were never more than a few such processor-based cartridges released. Later, the potentially...
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    Colleen includes user-accessible expansion slots for RAM and ROM, two 8 KB ROM cartridge slots, RF and monitor output (including two pins for separate...
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    part of the Nintendo's Game Pak series of ROM cartridges. All officially licensed NTSC-U and PAL region cartridges are 13.3 cm (5.25 inches) tall, 12 cm (4...
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    keyboard of the TI-99/4 was cited as a weak point, and TI's reliance on ROM cartridges and their practice of limiting developer information to select third...
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    released in 1984. The SG-1000 and the SC-3000 both support a library of 51 ROM cartridge games and 29 Sega My Card games. A third iteration of the console, the...
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    transistor–transistor logic circuitry of early hardware, and the first ROM cartridge-based home consoles arrived, including the Atari Video Computer System...
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    Hepburn: Neojio), stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based video gaming system released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game...
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    IBM PCjr (section Cartridges)
    8088 CPU and BIOS interface, but provided enhanced graphics and sound, ROM cartridge slots, built-in joystick ports, and an infrared wireless keyboard. The...
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